River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-15


barley, 40 240: oats, 10000; flax Isl
bfO The product Of Touring mills was
63l, $50 barrels. Mills have been making
extensive improvements, and the daily
milling capacity now is 4,l5O barrels.
Henry H. Plaugh has sued the North
ern Pacific Railway Company to recovery.
of S25 90 for damages TO his person The
comp int alleges that in March, lsS7 the
plaintiff while riding from Perham 10
bralnerd tle car in which he was riding
was thrown from the track and that his
shoulder was broken, his nervous system
was shattered and other injuries sustained,
and he wants $4,000 as damages
ID. G. Moak, for a long time sheriff
of Hancock county, died at Fort Dodge,
Iowa, of paralysis Mr. Moak's death is a
great shock 10 every one there. He was a
highly estimated and respected citizen of
the county for many Years, was strong,
rugged, healthy man IN the prime of life
and his death hardly seems possible 10 his
friends In his death Hancock county loses
one of its best citizens
A bank has been organized at Prince
ton, Mimi, 10 be known as the Bank of
Princeton, having paid up capital of sl0,-
600, with the following officers. e. III. Rines,
president; J. l.. Brady, vice-presid dent;
Charles Keith, cashier The officers anu
directors of the bank are men of means, re-
liability and energy, are old settlers, and
have the full support and confidence of tbs
community.
AT Winona, Mimi, Fitz Kramer was
conlidenced out of 500 by a Polish econ"
man, said to be from st. Paul The Pole
professed 10 have bought grocery for
$1,000 and hired Kramer for his clerk, thus
inducing Kramer To loan him 300, 10 com
plete the cash layment for tine place. The
Pole sent Kramer to look up some freight
and himself took the first train out of town.
The managers of the Rock county
agricultural ir at GAINESVILLE, had a special
s. nsation on their program in the shape of
two public marriage ceremonies. The bri-
dial pairs were Mr.. Crossman Alton and
Miss Ferris, Of Baraboo, and Henry 5. Bar
nard, OF l}eloit and Miss Nellie Blackman
or Barahoo. A long list of present had been
offered in each case.
Aspecial from Lake City, MINI, SAYS
while Mrs. j. } Dough y, o. elderly woman
was returning alone from prayer meeting
a man overlook her and put his arm around
her She pushed i'm away and struck him
in the face with light roll of cloth she had
in her hand, whereupon tn ruliian knocked
her down with a heavy blow on the mouth
that broke her artificial teeth and lacerated
her jaw. She ay unconscious for some
time, when passer-by assisted her home.
G. f. Meader, treasurer of Winnie
sheik Co. Ia, was found dead in grove
near DEBORAH with a bullet hole through his
right temple. Business trouble had
worried him lately, but it was not OF a
serious nature. His deputy positively
asserts that mis- accounts are correct, and
his domestic relations were most har-
monious.
At Winona, Mimi, safe blowers got
i'm their work at the grocery store of Arthur
Beyerstedt securing about 500 in cash and
numerous valueahle papers. Seventy-tive
dollars in money was overlooked 10y the
burglars. A telegram from Supt. Bowen,
of the Rochester insane asylum, Identified
the men as two escaped inmates from that
institution.
Yankton Special: The heavy rains
have washed out dozen bridges in this
county, and considerable damage resulted
TO farm property and stock from the
swollen streams. In Yankton, an iron
bridge across the Rhine was partially de-
stroyed One family is report, drowned
10y the flood in the northern art of the
county.
Pasco (Wash.) Lettor to Walla
Walla Statesman W. G. Eowland, a
gentleman from Alexandria, MINI, who
has been here about three nonths working
upan irrigat.o, scheme, became violently
insane lasr week and was taken to the
asylum al Steilacoom. He was very violent,
and il required four men TO control him.
At Fort Maginis, Mont. Charles Pull
/ len was deliberately murdered by Anton
Cedr u, a shoemaker, who shot him through
the left shoulder. the bullet passing through
the heart. Cedron was arrested and placed
in the guard house at the fort. Both men
were OF Fremont anadian origin, but citi-
zens OF the United States.
John Embody, aged 20, living or a
ranch at the head of Dearborn Creek, near
Fort Shaw, Mont, was murdered for 1925,
by a strange young man who was on a
horse stealing raid in that neighborhOOd
The mur erer split the old mans mead open
W tn N axe and then set fire to his cabin So
as 10 burn the body
/ AT Clay Center, Neb., Fred ROMEO.
held for the attempted murder of his wife,
near Fairfield, a few weeks ago, was found
dead IN his cell at one O'Clock on the morn
ing of the 18th The sheriff had furnished
HIM razor to shave himself, and with this
ne mad severed the arteries in both wrist
and bled to death.
At Cheboygan. Mich, on the Sth, the
wind attained velocity of 90 miles in an
/ hour. The schooner Mary d. Aver dragged
J on the rocks at Hammonds Bay, lost both
anchors and chains. unshipped her TuddeT
I and is tull of water. with part OF a cargo OF
/ ties in her hold. A tug was sent to her as
sistance.
During heavy thunder storm the
/ lightning struck Martin Pinning, who
resides in Milford, Mimi, and who was
blowing at the time on his farm, killing his
horses and injuring him severely. 1t is
stated that one OF his cheeks was torn of
and his arm badly hurt.
At Winona, Mimi, VIM. Behrens.
the l4-yearold son of Henry Behrens con
tractor, fen off the roof of the new high
school building. Both arms and one leg
were broken and he rect ived other injuries
from which he died in one hour after his
fall.
At Braiuerd. MINI, Ed. Wilson was
arraigned in the municipal court for assault
on Mrs Carrie Courtney. Waving examina-
tion he was held in bonds to appear before
the grand jury, and in fault of the same
Went to jail. The disclosures witnesses
make are very serious.
Near Macleod, n. w. T., an Indian
was shot 10y a white man. The white man
had left his tent, and on returning found a
young buck drinking his WHISKY, where
upon he shot him. The Indian could not
live.
At Madison. Wis, nearly three
hundred new students have thus far been
enrolled at the State University, and it is
expected that the aggregate att ndance
will reach the extraordinary lumber of six
hundred
Theresa Cody, the young wife from
whom the venerable DIR. Cody of Water
town, Wis, who is seeking to obtain divorce
has brought suit tor $1,000 damages
against her stepson, VIM. Cody, for assault.
A street car driver was found dead
at St Paul, under circumstances suggestive
of murder.
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